Improvement in the manufacture of table-cutlery



' if Winstedounty 'of Litchfield., and State of Connecticut, have invented a new andvuseful -Improvement inthe 'Manufacture' of Tablethe holsters applied by welding. Fig. '2is a' sectional view showing n-ihbed holsters ,appliedto atnlile-knifxfFig. 3'is a CIQS-S-'sec- I" Vtion taken atthefpoint.indicated by red linesf p p, Figs. land?. Figs..4and.5 are sectional rate-ly and afterward applied vtofthe cutlery, as

Toename-others skilled -in the art to make' UNITED STATES ALEXANDER Modulen, on WINsrED, CONNECTICUT,

l1PATENT t OFFICE yllVlPROVENIENT'IN THEM-ANUFACTURE OF TABLE-CUT'LERY.l

Specification forming 'part ot' LettcrsPatentNo'. 43,785, datctlAuglist.9,1`S64.

To all 'whoml itv may concern.- Be itfk'nown that I, ALEXANDER MGGUIRE,

4Cutler;v ;'andv I doherebydeclare that lthe following is-a'full, clear,1and'exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the ac' oo'inpanying drawings, making a part of'this specification, inwhichf- `Figure 1 isa side view'of -alini-lc infwhich` the blade andta-ng are made of one `piece,and

views taken through the' ewagingwlies4 duringtheoperation of producing a. nib-bolster.7

Figs and 7 -show'thfe Inh-holsters ready for Siinilar'letters of reference vindicate correi `spending parts in the several .figuresl The invention which I have vmade ,relatos to an improvement in the p roducti on"of those. "parts ot table-cutlery :known as holsters i or shoulders, when the same'are'made sepa- 'will 'be 4hercinafterdescribed.

`on each side of the talig a-Jbolster or 4vshou1l der, againstwhich the forward-ends ofthe "handlesections abut, and which :forni prof tections and give-a. finish to thehandle. These Yholsters are made separately from ythefknitc blade or" tang, 'when the two-latter parts are formed in one piece, as abovestated, and then welded in their proper places, Which'op-v eration renders the production of very good table-cutlery very simple,and greatly diminishes the labor and expense thereof.-

'.When the holsters a a. are made separately, I produce them in the following manner: A represntsa swagiug-dic whichhas a depression made in its face corresponding in shape and size to that of the nihbolstcrs represented Fig'sL 6 and'l; andfrepresents adie which has asmooth bottoni face and a perforatioln', through-it',.or into it, as shown in Figs. It and -operation. Y `To 'produce the. holsters with -nibs on their is forced in-tofsaidv hole during the swagi'ng "faces, as represented in-Figs. 6 and 7 and in Figsj 2 and 3, a strip ot-inetalotf the. proper.

width 'and thickness is: adjusted up'olr the lower die, A, so. that its cn'd will-beover the depression in thisdie. The' upper die', contain-y ing the perforation, b., is'now forcibly brought downupon the metal, land this metall s wuged into the 'shape corresponding toV the depressionabovedescribed, andl the 'perforation b thus'producing albolster having [a nib,v c, projecting from that side of it-wlich is brougfght` iu contact with-the side ofthe knife-tang, as .Shown innige 2 and 3. 'rims n winne seen that the nib and bolster'are produced at one' and thesame timeby one ol'ieration of swag.' ing 'and ofthe 'same'picce olmetaL Toapply the nib-bolsters which l havcjust described to a knife of the description repre vsented iu' =Figs.1 and 2,'pert'orations arc-made v at the'. proper points `througzghfthc tang g, and

thcnibs c are inserted into these holes in the manner substantially as shown in Fig. 3, after which. the holsters are welded tothe klnit'eand then-finished up in the usual.manner;

The proce ss 'of making these nib-.holsters I term the drop process, inasmuch-'as the lnihs aredroppedfroni or produced out of the same stock ndduring,the-operation of 'swag--v ing the bolster, the whole thing lbeing very simple and the nib-bolster very perfect when made. f

' The nibs c' mayihe made near'th-'c ends', or' inthe middle f ot'the holsters', and'they lmay be made topas's entirel y through the tangs", or onlypartly through". v Y -Havin g; thus dese'ribed'my invention, what I claimjas ne\v,aml*desire' to secure by Letr ters Patent, is. Forming a nib-.bolster for' table-cutlery by .thcdro'p process, substantially as and-for' the purposes described.

. ALEXANDER MCGU'IRE.' Witnesses G. L.1 `osKETT,

Ones. F. FosKE'r GiDE'oN HALL.'

5', tovrccelve ak portionof t'hc metal stock which 

